Noble Corp.

Public Company, Headquarters Location
13135 S Dairy Ashford Rd., Ste. 800, Sugar Land, TX 77478-3686, United States
(281)276-6100, (281)491-2092 fax, http://www.noblecorp.com

Primary SIC: Drilling Oil & Gas Wells, Primary NAICS: Drilling Oil and Gas Wells
Description: Noble Corporation, a Cayman Islands exempted company limited by shares is an offshore drilling contractor for the oil and gas industry. Noble became the successor to Noble Drilling Corporation, a Delaware corporation that was organized in 1939. Noble and its predecessors have been engaged in the contract drilling of oil and gas wells since 1921. The company performs contract drilling services with a fleet of 63 mobile offshore drilling units located worldwide. This fleet consists of 13 semisubmersibles, four dynamically positioned drillships, 43 jack-ups and three submersibles. The fleet count includes five units under construction, including one jack-up, one drillship, and three semisubmersibles. As of January 8, 2009, approximately 87 percent of the fleet was deployed in areas outside of the United States, principally in the Middle East, India, Mexico, the North Sea, Brazil and West Africa. In December 2008, the company announced a proposed merger, reorganization and consolidation transaction. The transaction would result in a new Swiss holding company, also called Noble Corporation, serving as the publicly-traded parent of the Noble group of companies. The transaction will effectively change the place of incorporation of the publicly traded parent company from the Cayman Islands to Switzerland.Mining: Provider of contract drilling services to the oil and gas industry.